Weegy: Hi i hope this is helpful. i provided the number , email, and adress.Phones: 08135864450, 08032249112. Should you wish to contact us via email, please click the following link, or complete the form below.
info@dtsgscholarship.org . [ Their address Delta State Bursary & Scholarship Board
Anwai Road,
Asaba, Delta State
Nigeria. ] (More)

Weegy: One of the dominant and pervasive problems in Nigeria, and in Africa at large, is the language question. [ Language, being a potent vehicle of transmitting cultures, values, norms and beliefs from generation to generation, remains a central factor in determining the status or nature of any nation. This informs the submission of Isayev (1977:1992) that “language is a nation’s most obvious and most important attribute. There is no such thing as a nation without a common linguistic basis.” The dominant inference from Isayev’s observation is that for national integration, cohesion and development, there must be a language acceptable to all in running a nation’s affairs.
In Nigeria, where like many other African nations, multilingualism is a rule, rather than an exemption, the problem of ‘forging ahead’ is of crucial import. Among the competing languages that scramble for national recognition or official status, whether indigenous or foreign, one must emerge as the official language (the language of administration and education at some levels), the language of relevance, from the competitors for the purpose of uniting the nation. Fortunately or unfortunately, English has emerged as that privileged language without which the unity of Nigeria as a nation is mostly improbable, if not outrightly impossible.Of all the heritage left behind in Nigeria by the British at the end of colonial administration, probably, none is more important than the English language. It is now the language of government, business and commerce, education, the mass media, literature, and much internal as well as external communications… ] (More)